From Awkward to Amusing | Ep. 30
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Kyle:Hi, everyone. Welcome to Kindling Conversations. I'm Kyle, and I'm joined today by my 3 other co hosts.
Caleb:I'm Ben. I'm mother.
Ashley:I'm Ashley.
Kyle:Just keep going. And today, we're gonna be talking about, embarrassing moments that have happened to us personally. I mean, I I I think we could take it as far as to, if you know someone that's had something embarrassing have happen to them.
Ben:So I say just kinda touch you with embarrassing moments within certain topics. You know what I mean? Like school, like, we should, like, a grade school one, middle school that go through our lives.
Kyle:Well, I think if you've ever shit your pants at school or pissed your pants, I think that's gonna be everyone's. Well, you're kindergarten. Right. That's probably gonna top the list. I mean, unless you can think of something way more embarrassing.
Kyle:But I shit my pants in 2nd grade.
Caleb:You shit your pants? Like, came out in the commercial?
Kyle:I full on shit my I was just standing in the playground. It just came out. No. Not came out. It just
Ben:came out.
Kyle:I I didn't even try holding. I was just standing there and slipped out.
Ashley:Good lord. Jesus. Sorry.
Kyle:I promise this ain't a Christmas episode. But first, I think we have some shout outs, unless it's just the
Ashley:The yuz. The embers and the sparks.
Ben:Yeah. Hailey, Evan, Aaron, Vera.
Caleb:Zoe.
Ben:Thank you guys for sticking with us and back playing. I don't know. We'll see if Aaron actually listens to our podcast again.
Kyle:Yeah. Right? Yeah. He's he's gotta catch up. He's blaming us.
Kyle:He's not like he has to catch up, but,
Caleb:like Still? Feels like we've given him plenty of time to Yeah.
Ben:He's he's had a good little boy. The new one yet. Uh-huh. This one.
Kyle:Yeah. I think that's about it for that, I guess.
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Caleb:Yeah. We're not getting paid for any ads we're doing.
Ashley:We need money. Okay. Kyle, get into it.
Ben:Well, I don't know what you're looking at.
Kyle:What's your guys embarrassing?
Ashley:No. I'm just trying to let's go back to you. And when you were in 2nd grade, why did did you feel the urge or was it, like, you just had that Were you
Ben:in, like, the middle of class and he just told you no one's already and you didn't wanna go?
Kyle:I was at recess. I was just playing around bullying kids like I did, and my body bullied me. I've full on chipped my pants right right in the playground.
Caleb:Chipped my pants? Well, then what did
Ashley:you do?
Kyle:Held my ass cheeks and ran up into the bathroom. I'm not sure if anyone knew. I I never no one ever pointed it out, but I, Were you wearing pants or shorts? I was wearing I was wearing jeans. Oh.
Kyle:Like but my my parents' toxic trait was putting jeans on me from, like, the seventies. So, like, so, like, it was, like, the the Capris. And,
Ben:they were Capris now.
Kyle:They were, like, the really light colored jeans, and I like the darker color ones. They're light colored jeans? But I needed yeah. Like, they were borderline white. But, like, obviously, I I needed a change of, you know, from from the waist down.
Ben:Yeah.
Kyle:And my mom and my dad are working, and my mom was probably sleeping because she worked 3rd shift. Mhmm. My dad was working he was in Delavan. So the only the only person that was out was that was available in town was Nana. So, I forgot.
Kyle:I I think a teacher had took me in there because she knew I think I told her out of
Ashley:Probably because you had to get back inside.
Kyle:Yeah. And so she she waited in the bathroom with me.
Caleb:I'm just imagining little Kyle going, you
Ben:should have been pooped.
Ashley:No. He probably said I pooped.
Ben:I I
Kyle:think it was like I I think I told her I had, like, an accident or something.
Caleb:I had accident.
Kyle:But the the the only person that could bring me a change of clothes was Nana. So the teacher is, like, well
Ben:She brought you more seventies pants? Yes.
Kyle:That that's all that my dresser was full of. I swear to god. Even to this day, so I'm, like like, seventies pants.
Ben:Describe 70 pants seventies pants to our viewers.
Kyle:They're, like, really they're, like, light colored pants. They they only go to, like, your ankles.
Ashley:Like, you're waiting for a flood?
Ben:Yeah. Were you wearing high socks too?
Kyle:No. There's regular socks, I think. I can't remember.
Caleb:I I mean, to be fair, 2nd grade, this was, like
Kyle:I didn't pick out my own clothes. Right. My mom didn't trust me to pick out my own clothes.
Ashley:I still don't
Kyle:trust you. Because she knew it'd be a fucking train wreck. So, like, she would lay out my clothes for me.
Caleb:I don't blame her.
Kyle:She still did she still didn't until high school when she moved out.
Caleb:You mean you chose what you wore in high school?
Kyle:After the divorce, yes.
Caleb:Yes. That's a choice.
Kyle:Yeah. So He still chooses The teacher was like, well, what's your grandma's name what's your grandma's name so we can get her down here to bring you a change of clothes? And I was like, it's Nana. And she's like, no. Like, what's her actual name?
Kyle:I'm, like, Nana. Because that's what I call her as Nana. That's what she knew her as. And so the teacher had to call my dad, and she's, like, what's your mom's name? And he goes, Pat.
Kyle:She goes, okay. Kyle was saying it's Nana. And he goes, well, it is. He's like, that that's what he calls her.
Caleb:That's fair.
Kyle:Right. She had to get her number from my dad and call her and everything. But, yeah, that that that that was pretty embarrassing. I'm not sure if anyone noticed, like, me coming back with just completely different pants on, but, you know
Ben:I don't think I have any stories of, like, pooping or peeing my pants that I can
Kyle:I did puke one time? I thought I missed the bus in school.
Ben:I knew you because you
Kyle:thought you missed the bus. So it was after school. We're
Ashley:just learning so much about Kyle. Right?
Kyle:I I got hung up doing something.
Ben:This podcast is pretty much listen to Kyle's story.
Kyle:You know how, like Kyle's
Caleb:life is embarrassing.
Kyle:Well, like, do do you know how, like, when you when you start running and and you're, like, really fucking nervous that you're, like like, your heart starts beating and shit Yeah.
Ashley:Yeah. It's called anxiety.
Ben:And you get that feeling
Kyle:that you're, like, gonna throw up Yep. That's anxiety. Yeah. I I fucking puked right in the gym, and then I just kept going. I made it and then I made it to the bus.
Kyle:I didn't tell anyone. I just stopped. I just puked on the gym floor, and then just ran out the door under the bus. Yeah. That's pretty much it.
Kyle:I I didn't miss the bus. I got on the bus, and I'm like, oh, I guess I got sick for nothing.
Ashley:So when you got on the bus, were you like, oh, this is great. This Yeah. Fine.
Kyle:I was like
Ashley:Instant relief?
Kyle:I was like, well, I made it to the bus. And, like, thing was, the the gym door was open so I could see the bus, and they weren't leaving. And I still puked on the floor and then just ran like, I sprinted to the bus, like like like, my life depended.
Caleb:How long did the bus wait until, like, it left after you got out of here?
Kyle:Well, that's the thing. It it waited a little bit.
Caleb:So you had time?
Kyle:Yeah. But I never knew because I I always wanted to get to the bus right after that, you know, school got out Uh-huh. Because I didn't wanna miss it. Because then, otherwise, my parents would beat my ass. So I was like, it's either I get sick here or I miss the bus, and I get my ass beat.
Kyle:And I'm like, so I'm just gonna get sick here.
Caleb:On the bright side, you didn't miss the bus.
Kyle:Yeah. No. I did get my ass beat for for forgetting my lunchbox on the bus one time, though. Jesus.
Caleb:Yeah. You're making your parents out to be, like
Ashley:Like abusers.
Caleb:Yeah. I Child abusers.
Kyle:I got grounded for
Caleb:I almost said molesters.
Kyle:I got detention, I think.
Ben:I almost got detention in 4th grade.
Kyle:I got detention in middle, in kindergarten for trying to scare people.
Ben:And and my
Caleb:okay. You're
Kyle:just Ain't that a load of shit?
Ben:Let's do yours first so we can do mine.
Kyle:Yeah. So, kindergarten, I got detention for trying to scare someone.
Ashley:But you were just hiding around the corner?
Kyle:No. I was hiding behind the front door of the school. And I scared 1 teacher, and she she laughed. And then I was waiting there, and the principal's like, hey, come over here. You're not gonna scare anyone.
Kyle:And I'm like, okay. And then my ass walked back up to the door, and I tried scaring someone. I got detention for it.
Caleb:That's your dumbass fault.
Ashley:Little Kyle comes, like, a I was
Kyle:in fucking kindergarten. When he goes back to
Ben:the door, looking back to the people going, I'm gonna go do it anyways.
Kyle:That was
Ben:quite like walking over.
Kyle:I had my back to the wall, and I was making dead eye contact with her. I'm, like, like, I was, like, no. I'm gonna fucking scare someone, and then I got detention.
Ashley:Did you scare somebody else?
Kyle:I think I tried scaring one of my friends, and then, like, she she didn't like, she she waited to give me detention until I scared her. Like, once he came out and I went, baa. And she's like, yep. You're done.
Ben:Oh, actually
Kyle:I'm like, what the fuck?
Ben:I do have an embarrassing story.
Kyle:5th grade, I got suspended 4 times.
Ashley:Okay. This is no. That's not embarrassing. You're done. And
Kyle:He said he wanted to hear it, and then he would explain his.
Ben:That one story.
Ashley:That one story.
Kyle:The ones in 5th grade are juicier.
Ben:Look at the little next button. You know, you gotta come down and then come back up, then go down and come back up.
Caleb:Yeah. We're going down now
Ben:Yeah.
Caleb:With Ben's story.
Ben:Yeah.
Caleb:It's like taking a downer. You know?
Ben:Or, like, Caleb Caleb's career. Alright, Caleb. I was just messing with you.
Caleb:You know what? One day then. One day.
Ben:One day when you're in the $1,000,000 house and I'm in the box on the side of the street.
Caleb:Exactly.
Ben:Yep. Whatever. Those students
Caleb:are gonna make me rich.
Ben:So when I was in 4th grade, I bawled my eyes out crying because I did not wanna go in the smokehouse because I was scared. In 4th grade. Yeah. And now I'm a firefighter.
Kyle:I was gonna say yes.
Ben:Now I voluntarily do it.
Ashley:Okay. Right. But if anybody knows anything, like, when Ben was little, he was, like, the skittish, most scared little boy.
Ben:And there was, like, people is. There was, like Try grabbing his nips. Get out of here. There was, like, people on the fire room that I knew that were trying to help me, like, come on, Ben. Let's go.
Ben:And I just bawling my eyes out.
Caleb:Didn't you always wanna be a firefighter?
Ashley:No.
Ben:Yeah. No. Yeah. When I was younger, I did.
Caleb:What did he wanna be?
Ben:I told mom and dad. I told mom that I would be a firefighter. I was right at the ambulance.
Caleb:No. Shut up. This is Ashley's turn to talk.
Ben:Oh my god.
Ashley:He he was gonna be anything and everything. No. He's gonna be a cowboy. The boy would wear shorts.
Kyle:He wanted to be Johnny Sins.
Ashley:He would wear shorts with cowboy boots, and then he would take my jump rope and tie it around one of, like, our big stuffed animals that we had. It was probably I think it was the penguin that we got from when my mom bought a car around Christmas time.
Ben:I do remember that.
Ashley:He would
Caleb:He had
Ben:a giant stuffed penguin.
Ashley:Yeah. She he would tie the jump rope around it and would pretend it was, like, a cow that he was, like, taking care of.
Ben:Just the thing will be dragging behind them, like, I got the cow, guys. And I just have this little gator. I just put it in the back. Like, this is my hauler, my my farmer animal hauler. Oh my god.
Ben:Battery powered, like, power gators.
Ashley:My giant Care Bear, and that became another animal for him.
Ben:I still I own a farm in my room.
Ashley:He would he would attach belts together to make, like, a rope.
Ben:Mhmm. Yeah.
Caleb:That's so you wanted to be a cowboy.
Kyle:Yeah.
Ashley:We went to, like, the rodeo once, and that boy was, like
Caleb:Was that, like, your
Ashley:a bull rider.
Caleb:Was that, like, your dream come true going to a rodeo?
Ben:No. It was more just like not necessarily a cowboy. It was more of just a farmer in general that I used to wanna be. Still living in me the silly city, but, yeah,
Caleb:I'll be done.
Kyle:Okay, Ashley. What what's your elementary like, embarrassing story.
Ashley:In kindergarten, we had, like, a paraprofessional. It was, like, the teacher's helper. So the teacher, we
Kyle:We called them student teachers.
Ashley:Oh, they were paraprofessionals
Ben:we were professional in Walworth. We used big words.
Kyle:The paraprofessionals were for special needs.
Ben:We used we used big words on, like, people over in Beloit.
Ashley:So we we would split up into 2 groups. And, like, at one group, you would be, like, learning, doing something with the teacher. And then at the other station, you would be with the paraprofessional doing some kinda arts and crafts. And
Ben:Oh, not get Luke.
Ashley:Get Luke's getting a little angry.
Kyle:He's fist bumping.
Ben:We
Ashley:I, you know, did the learning part, then I went to the paraprofessionals station, and I was, like, just doing my own thing. And they were, like, oh, how was everybody's night and stuff? And I was, like, oh, it was really bad.
Ben:And I was,
Ashley:like, oh, no. I actually why? And I was, like, because this morning, I had to, like, carry my brother 5 miles to my aunt's house all by myself.
Ben:She barely is a mile away too.
Kyle:Yeah. She carried you? Listen You couldn't walk?
Ben:It was the I don't even know
Kyle:how old I was.
Ashley:I was in kindergarten, so I was, like, what, 4? Ben was, like, 1?
Kyle:Yeah. Jesus.
Ashley:So I was, like, yeah. I carried him 5 miles because my mom and dad got into a big argument, and my mom left, and my dad left, and nobody was home.
Kyle:I remember that.
Ashley:And, like, I mean, she just kept me talking.
Kyle:What are you telling me?
Ashley:And I was like, this is insane. Like, this teacher wants to talk to me.
Ben:And And, actually, if you know anything about Ashley, now she's talked when she was really younger, she would talk to anybody. She was a really social young kid. Yeah. And if someone talked to her, she would talk. She didn't care.
Ben:Pretend some random stories. She's she's really good at making up stories when she was younger.
Ashley:Yeah. By Mandy Major was
Ben:really wild.
Ashley:So as I'm talking, the teacher is listening and typing this up, and my grandma worked at the school.
Ben:She worked in the kitchen?
Ashley:Yeah. And so Oh, yeah. She, the teacher is, like, oh, I'll be right back. And I'm, like, okay. Goodbye, miss Boulder.
Ashley:Like, I'm gonna stay here and keep keep painting. Well, I guess she had talked to my grandma, and my grandma called my mom while she was at work. And she was, like, what is going on at home? Like, what is happening? And my mom's, like, what do you mean?
Ashley:Well, turns out that my parents did not get into a fight. They were talking about our spring break trip.
Ben:And talking about a hotel.
Ashley:And talking about a hotel. So I
Ben:Ashley took that out. They're fighting and mom went to a hotel. But the thing is those my mom drove her drove me and her to my aunt's house. Yeah. It was like babysit us.
Ben:And dropped Ashley off at school.
Kyle:No. No. Why the fuck she say
Ashley:it? What?
Ben:Because when Ash was younger, she would make as long as as long as she could be talking, she would make up some sort of story. I didn't think it
Ashley:was a bad thing.
Ben:She would make up a story. Yeah. She would make up a story just to talk. I mean, now too, but
Kyle:Ash has set up the perfect, like, child services case.
Ashley:Yeah. I did.
Ben:She really did.
Ashley:It was just my inner social worker coming out.
Ben:A social worker.
Caleb:Oh my god.
Ashley:So yeah. And then I didn't think anything was wrong. They didn't say anything to me until I got home, and my mom had picked us up and she would walk Lucy and stuff. And, like, I was super excited to see my mom and my dog, but, my mom was not excited to see me. So case
Ben:it was got a child services case open to catch them.
Ashley:I got I got yelled at a lot, like, by my mom and my dad. And then I saw my grandma at the next day in the lunch line, and then she
Ben:yelled You do good.
Ashley:Oh my god.
Kyle:Sorry. Swaddled soda the wrong way. Both of you? Yeah. Sorry.
Kyle:I mean, eye contact with me.
Ben:Oh my god. You too. Alrighty. You should tune out the podcast.
Ashley:Oh, I'm trying to think what embarrassing. Well, okay. So in high school, I, I had a stomachache, and so I stayed home 2 or 3 days from school. Like, it was a bad one, like like a bad stomachache. And, to anybody listening.
Ben:Yeah. I'm listening.
Ashley:So I felt better, and I had a basketball game. And, as as on varsity
Kyle:Was it the road game?
Ashley:No. Oh. No. I guess that's another one.
Kyle:This is what? What grade?
Ashley:It was a senior.
Kyle:Oh, no. We're we're going elementary, middle, high school.
Ashley:Oh, okay.
Ben:Oh, Caleb, what's your elementary school? We've all kinda said 1.
Caleb:I don't know.
Kyle:I know one.
Caleb:From elementary?
Kyle:Story that I've heard.
Ben:I didn't
Kyle:know Talk to the mic. I I didn't know you in middle school, but it's a story I've heard.
Caleb:We know each other in middle school.
Kyle:Elementary, I'm saying.
Caleb:Yeah. Well, you said middle. Oh, did I? Yeah.
Kyle:It it involves your head.
Caleb:Oh. What'd you do?
Kyle:Yeah. That counts as elementary.
Caleb:That does because it was elementary school. So it was winter time. It had just snowed, but we had also just come off with some snow melting. It was, like, in that, like, in between time where it was, like, warming up. So the snow melting
Kyle:Was the white dust,
Caleb:like I'm getting there. Hold on. Okay. So the snow melted, then it got cold again. It refroze.
Caleb:You know? So there's a nice layer of ice everywhere, and then it snowed like a fresh powdery snow.
Ben:So you
Caleb:know how the ice got super slick.
Kyle:Yep. So so there's so so there was, like, a layer of dust over the ice.
Caleb:But it was snow? Yes. Yes.
Ben:Not just dust. Powders.
Kyle:It was like a powder. Yeah. Yeah.
Caleb:Yeah. You good? Sorry. It burp.
Kyle:Your thing is pissing me off. It's not straight.
Ben:His little mic his little wind cover microphone thing was not straight, and those make their
Kyle:real mask. Scrook again.
Caleb:Yeah. You're pissing me off with the way you're holding your fucking microphone. Thank you.
Ben:You are talking to the
Caleb:Anyways in Discord. Anyways, so so, fresh snow, fresh powder snow on lower ice.
Kyle:Whose foot was that? Is that yours? Okay. You can put it up. I thought it was Ben's.
Kyle:I was like, man, it's not flexible.
Caleb:Fresh layer of snow, some ice, and I I was we were at recess, and I was gonna go run and play with my best friend at the time.
Kyle:Who? Oh, Autumn. Yeah. And
Caleb:I ran. I stopped because I didn't know what was happening. And then I was like, Oh, and I started running again. And when I ran that time, I slipped on the ice, fell right back onto my head, cracked my head open.
Ben:That sucks.
Caleb:Yeah. I was walking up to holding my head to the teacher. I was like, my head hurts. She was like she was like, yeah. I bet it does.
Caleb:And I'm like, what? And I take my hand off, bloody fucking hand. And I was just like, at that point, that's when I started crying when I saw the fucking blood.
Ashley:Yeah. Because you were scared.
Caleb:Yeah. And so she took me to the nurse's office. Nurse called my parents. Had to go to the hospital. Five stitches in my head.
Ashley:Did you get, like, a lollipop or, like, cookies out of it?
Caleb:From the nurse. Yeah. She made me a lollipop.
Ben:Now since you're talking about falling, I do have a story. I have it was this 4th grade. I was in class.
Ashley:So we're going to middle school?
Ben:4th grade is a
Caleb:little grade. That's elementary school.
Ashley:Oh, yeah. I guess.
Caleb:Yeah. Yeah. What fuck is 4th grade to you?
Ben:Yeah. 5th grade's middle school.
Caleb:6th grade is elementary school.
Kyle:Really? 6, 7, and 8th is middle school. Not in Wallworth.
Caleb:What?
Kyle:Yeah. That's weird. Mhmm.
Ben:5th grade starts middle school.
Ashley:5th grade starts
Ben:middle school.
Caleb:Middle school was 6, 7, 8 for us.
Ashley:Oh, no.
Ben:Good? That was a pop back, so we're good.
Kyle:I know, man.
Ben:Yeah. So we have this thing called jump rope for heart. And so there's these little it's like a little fundraiser we did to raise money for, like, heart disease stuff
Kyle:Yeah.
Ben:For kids and like that. Yeah. We donate to that. And, so there's this little you know, those little jumping platforms that you stack on top of each other?
Kyle:Mhmm.
Ben:That was one of our stations. And 4th grade me thought, there's a cute girl there. I'm gonna try to pressure her. Me and my friend talking. And then we so we stacked them really high, and I was like, watch this.
Ben:I'm gonna do it. Because I did, like, I did your take 3 off, and I did that one. It was pretty high. I was like, I could do this. We did it.
Ben:I'm like, oh, I'm scared. He was my friend's like, just do it. Come on. Just do it. I'm like, alright.
Ben:I did it. My feet at the front. My my knees, like, give it to my head, and I went right down to my butt.
Kyle:Is that why you wanna talk to girls now?
Ben:No. I
Caleb:was gonna say that.
Kyle:No. That's the that's
Ben:just But, yeah,
Caleb:I'm dark. He is, like,
Ben:feet toasty. My toes hit it, and I'd like, like, fold it. It went straight down to my butt.
Kyle:I thought you're gonna say that, like, your feet hit it and then slid it out from underneath you.
Ben:No. He was holding it, so it didn't do that. We're smart smart.
Caleb:We're smart.
Ben:We're smart. We put my like, like, the front of my shoes caught it. I, like, folded. It was straight down.
Kyle:The plan was there, but the execution was
Ashley:So you just went straight up. You didn't actually jump forward.
Ben:Right. Because I was trying to get height, and so I didn't go forward very much. And I just went up and went, wham. Boom.
Ashley:Did everybody look at you?
Ben:I kinda, like, jumped up fast. You know, you if you got me, like, nothing happened. Gotta go around. My butt was a little sore after that. It was
Kyle:rough. Okay. Middle school.
Ben:Yep.
Kyle:Mine was the musical.
Caleb:Just doing the musical?
Kyle:Yeah. Because that was really out of my comfort zone.
Caleb:And I don't know how you got the fucking lead.
Ben:I don't either.
Kyle:Because I I
Caleb:I I pretty much pressured him in the
Kyle:TJ signed me up.
Caleb:TJ pretty much pressured you
Kyle:I didn't even wanna audition. And he because Why did
Ben:you do that?
Kyle:Well, miss Hormig was like, oh, we're gonna be having auditions. I implore you all to, you know, sign your name, at least audition. And I I was sitting there, I'm, like, you know, I'm not gonna, like you know, I I got better things to do Right. In middle school, you know, for sure. And so so TJ went up, came back, he goes, yeah.
Kyle:I put both of our names down to audition. I'm like, oh, what? I'm like, alright. Whatever. I I didn't even try, like, I What did you sing?
Kyle:Don't you just sing? So we the guys had to sing one part Yeah. And then we had to memorize the monologue. Well, so I I did both and I I half asked both parts Mhmm. Because I'm like like, if if I don't get the part, I'm not gonna be upset.
Kyle:I didn't wanna try out anyway.
Ben:Right.
Kyle:Whatever. So I did it, that was it, And then it was the next it was that Friday or the Friday after or something.
Caleb:Did you
Ben:do this on? Is it, like, a Monday?
Kyle:It was, like, a Monday, I think, or something.
Caleb:It was, like, a Monday where results were posted on, like, a Friday.
Kyle:Yeah. And so on that Friday, you know, everyone's checking to see, like, where their name is on the list. I I just scanned it, so I I and I I I just looked at the bottom because I'm like, yep. I don't see it. You know, whatever.
Kyle:So, like, I started turning around, and miss Hormag's like, did you see what part you got? I'm, like, no. And she's, like, you got the lead. I'm, like, oh, great. I'm, like, what?
Caleb:I got mad at Kyle.
Kyle:And then the morning announcements came on, and they started listing off the Yeah.
Ben:For us too.
Kyle:The part you got on the morning announcements. So, like, my name was first. I'm like Yeah. What the fuck? And That's funny.
Kyle:This was the musical. Caleb had the lead in the play.
Caleb:I say I have lead the lead in the play in the fall.
Kyle:It was a Jungle Book.
Caleb:Yeah. It was Mowgli.
Kyle:Yeah. So He he had the best of
Ben:them for audition that he didn't truly try for it.
Caleb:No. He got the fucking lead him.
Kyle:Because Caleb was trying to get the lead for the musical.
Caleb:I wanted to get lead for both. See, I
Ben:see Caleb as a musical or play guy. I cannot see Kyle.
Kyle:And she He wasn't. She she had told Caleb that the the only reason he didn't get it is because he didn't try hard enough.
Caleb:Yeah. And I was the one
Ben:who fucking tried.
Kyle:Yeah. He actually tried. I didn't.
Ben:Dude, I do debate. I got dude a big idea. Did Kyle just reserve the role lead? I think
Caleb:it was bullshit.
Kyle:Conspiracy theory. Yeah. Like, I don't know. Like, conspiracy theory,
Ben:he paid the the teacher off.
Kyle:I would say it was necessary.
Caleb:It seems like something he would do considering all of our other middle school shenanigans.
Ben:Didn't he get you suspended a couple of times?
Caleb:He definitely got me detention a couple of times.
Ben:And he got No.
Kyle:That was also middle school.
Caleb:That was middle school. That's that's my embarrassing story.
Kyle:But yeah. Like, I it wasn't, like, wasn't too embarrassing? Like, the the first show, what like, the first times we started rehearsing with a mic and everything, that's been, like like, I could feel my face getting hot because I'm like Yeah. Like, I I've never done this before.
Caleb:I got knuckles.
Kyle:Yeah. Hey, Kayla's knuckles. He he couldn't he couldn't get him to crack that loud in middle school, so they had to give him bubble wrap.
Caleb:Yeah. And
Kyle:he had to snap the bubble wrap in the mic. I mean, it was a really fun experience. Me and Caleb were a couple womanizers.
Caleb:Oh, yeah.
Ashley:Would you encourage people to do it? Like, if our kid came up to you and was like, dad, should I do this?
Kyle:I'm not gonna stop them if they want to. You know?
Caleb:Like I said, I don't think you can ever stop a kid from doing what they want to do. Right?
Kyle:Like, I I'm not gonna talk them out of it. I'll I'll give them my experience, but I'm not gonna, like, downplay it.
Caleb:You gotta admit, it was a fun experience.
Kyle:It was fun.
Caleb:Especially when we were realizing.
Kyle:It was fun.
Caleb:Like, we still bring up memories from it though. I mean
Kyle:I still got my playbook.
Caleb:I was gonna say, you still have your playbook, and and I remember well, the script. And I remember but you gave a look. Oh, you get, you gave a look. I remember we were sitting, when, you were at the bitch's house and we, you were packing up. Oh.
Caleb:Yeah. And you pulled we you pulled your script out, and we sat there, and we looked through all of the notes and, like, through the through the play or the musical and everything. We're like, dude, I remember this. Like and we're having a laughing good time about it. Yeah.
Caleb:Like, just reminiscing on the fucking musical that you didn't even wanna be in that you're gonna bleed for. Right. But
Kyle:Ashley?
Ashley:My middle school?
Kyle:Yeah.
Ashley:Okay. So I would say 7th grade I was in, and we were outside at recess, whatever. And it was just so popular.
Caleb:Oh, sure.
Ben:She really wasn't?
Ashley:No. But this is my first kiss, so that's embarrassing.
Caleb:I remember my first kiss.
Kyle:Who is yours with? I can't
Caleb:We'll get to there.
Kyle:I remember mine.
Ashley:I can be a new
Caleb:I remember mine.
Ashley:Anyways and so it was outside at recess, but it kinda was, like, a double dare type of deal. And I'm not I'm not friends with the girl anymore, but she had said, like, oh, like, I double dog dare you to kiss this person. And I was like
Kyle:Who dared you? Carla?
Ashley:No. Maribel. I'm not friends with her anymore.
Kyle:Okay. So I've heard you bring her up.
Ashley:Yeah. And so my mom did not raise a pussy. So I was, like, okay, bet. And so
Caleb:Well, she kinda did raise a pussy.
Kyle:Yeah. I was gonna say kinda.
Ashley:Sorta kinda.
Ben:I say this come back on me, Ashley. Oh, I
Ashley:thought we're talking about, like, Nala.
Kyle:Oh. No. I was talking about the downstairs. Oh, I thought I was talking about me. No.
Kyle:Okay. We we were all picking up something completely different there.
Ben:Me and Kyle picked up the same thing.
Caleb:Yeah. That
Kyle:is true.
Ben:You and I
Caleb:knew. Ben was like, yeah. This is coming back on me.
Ashley:And so I did it, but he really liked me. And so he tried to use tongue, but, like, 7th grade Ashley didn't really know that
Kyle:why Oh, god.
Ashley:His tongue just went into my mouth and I got I got scared, and I, like, bit down. Oh. So then he kinda, like, pulled away, and I was still, like, clamped down. And yeah. Oh.
Ashley:We, we attempted to to date, but we we did not. It did not go it did not go so well.
Ben:Makes sense.
Kyle:I would've screamed. Yeah. So it
Ashley:was a little traumatizing when somebody stuck their tongue in me. And then and then we really That
Kyle:was a damn choice. Yeah. That's middle school.
Caleb:Geez. Bad choice of words
Kyle:that is not in me. Okay. In my mouth. I don't know if that's any better. I don't think it is.
Kyle:But
Ashley:I don't know if that's any better.
Caleb:I don't think it is,
Ashley:but now I'm just gonna
Ben:I really I
Ashley:really thought I really thought that, like, nobody was watching. No. It was a lot of people were watching.
Caleb:Nice. Yikes. My middle school story.
Kyle:Is it 1?
Caleb:To involve
Kyle:Do you have is it a bunch of them?
Caleb:Or is there one of them more? One was, like, the most memorable to
Kyle:you. Okay.
Caleb:So Kyle and I had a lot of classes together in 7th 8th grade.
Ben:Which is a bad idea from the way it sounds?
Caleb:Mhmm. Yeah. But Kyle would always get me in trouble. And I mean, always.
Ashley:He still gets you in trouble.
Caleb:Yeah. But no. Not like not like that.
Kyle:Mine was like
Caleb:get me sent to, like, ISS. He'd get me detention and all that bullshit.
Ashley:Honestly, I don't know why you're so friends with him.
Caleb:I don't either.
Kyle:It's me.
Caleb:So, there's this one particular date. Can't remember why Kyle left the room. Doesn't really fucking matter.
Ben:Was it bathroom break?
Caleb:I don't know. All I remember, he comes back. He walks through the door. I'm making direct eye contact with him. Yeah.
Caleb:Making direct eye contact with the son of a bitch. We sit right next to each other in class and I pull his chair out for him real nice and gently
Kyle:Mhmm.
Caleb:As he's walking to me. Uh-huh. He comes to sit down. He's still making eye contact with me. He's, like, ready to sit down in his chair, making complete eye contact with me, sees what I'm doing.
Caleb:And I pull the chair. You know how, like some people pull the chair from people when they're going to sit down, they fall flat on their ass. Yeah. Yeah. I did this so nice and gently.
Caleb:Kyle knew exactly what the fuck I was doing. And then he just goes down to the ground.
Ben:I flopped.
Caleb:He flopped onto the ground, and I'm just like, Kyle's over here laughing and fucking miss Hernandez.
Kyle:Miss Hernandez or missouri?
Caleb:It was Hernandez.
Kyle:Was it?
Caleb:It was in Hernandez's class. Because I remember it was science or something like that we were doing. She just, she let me have it in front of the whole class. She's like, wouldn't it have been funny if you would have, cracked his head open? And I really, really badly just wanted to be, like, kinda.
Kyle:That's right.
Caleb:And then she sent me to ISS, where I have was a first name basis with miss Owens.
Ben:First name basis. The teacher.
Kyle:Caleb tried getting me in trouble one time too. It was, like, revenge. So it was at lunch. The the little cartons of, like, chocolate milk or white milk you get with lunch, you know?
Caleb:There's chocolate milk to eat.
Kyle:Yeah. It was chocolate milk.
Caleb:So you know.
Kyle:Well, he was fucking with me. He he, like, poured, like his was empty, but he he didn't know that there was, like, a drop in there. So, like, he was, like, faking it and, like, a little more came out than he thought and it, like, went in my hair. Yeah. So I I grabbed my full carton and smashed it right into his fucking face.
Kyle:Yeah. And milk exploded everywhere. So then we got Teresa's come back couldn't find Caleb. So I go to class, and I I, they, paged to the class Mhmm.
Ben:And they
Kyle:wanted me to go down to the office. I'm, like, what the fuck? Okay. I go walk in. Here's Caleb sitting there with, like, a shitty grin on his face.
Caleb:To be fair, they wanted to know the story of why what happened, and I told them. I just sound like I went to tattle.
Ashley:Yeah. They they the
Caleb:teacher had pulled me before we went to recess. So they wanted to know what happened, so I told them.
Kyle:And, so, like, I I went in there, and they're, like, what happened?
Caleb:I'm just saying our vice principal and my dad were on first name basis.
Ben:That's what they brag about.
Caleb:Katie Smullins.
Ben:That's not something to brag about. Just so
Ashley:you know.
Caleb:No. She told me if I would have had one more referral, they were gonna expel me. Yeah.
Ashley:Okay. Interesting.
Kyle:Yeah. So, so then I I walk in there. I tell my side of the story, and then they put us both in detention.
Caleb:Which Kyle fucking liked.
Kyle:It was so quiet in there, and miss Owens is a teacher in there. She knew me because of my brother.
Ashley:Yeah.
Kyle:So she's like, oh, hey, Kyle.
Ben:Caleb walked in. She's like, Caleb.
Kyle:Caleb thought I was gonna hate it, and, like, we walked out of there and I'm like, dude, that was pretty fucking cool.
Caleb:And I was just like, what?
Ben:You like?
Kyle:He's like yeah. He's like, you like that? I'm like, dude, it was so quiet in there. Well, yeah. Because my god.
Ashley:I mean, at home, I'm sure it was probably chaotic, and Kyle's head is just chaotic in itself. So sitting in, like, a quiet room was so probably so nice.
Ben:Yeah. And
Caleb:I'm just over there, like, I fucking hate the quiet because of my ADHD brain. So, like, it was awful, but I never learned. Mhmm. I never learned. Ben?
Caleb:I don't know if
Ben:I have one that I can remember. Wait. Did They didn't mind, like, blocked them all out.
Kyle:You weren't that traumatized.
Caleb:For real? No. He remembers 1. He just doesn't wanna tell us because it's embarrassing.
Ben:I would tell you my embarrassing story. I still remember any.
Kyle:It's, like, a puberty one? No. It's high school, ain't it?
Caleb:It could start in middle school.
Kyle:And it Well, clearly Yeah.
Ashley:That's why know
Caleb:someone who had a baby in middle school.
Ashley:That's why you start learning about it in 4th grade.
Ben:I just kinda kept to myself and sat in the back of the classroom. I was quiet.
Ashley:My most embarrassing Yes.
Ben:I was the quiet kid. Is Bullshit vibes.
Ashley:In middle school I was
Ben:told that.
Ashley:2 would be Never happened. Going to speech class.
Ben:That's good.
Caleb:I'm assuming because you're saying
Kyle:And Yeah.
Ashley:Right. Still not knowing how to say words.
Kyle:That's fair. Okay, Ben. High school. Most embarrassing
Caleb:Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on, Ben. And I don't mean to, like, piss you off or anything, and I can cut this part out if you want.
Caleb:Don't you have, like, dyslexia? Don't like, nothing about that, like, was embarrassing in middle school?
Kyle:If you just had it?
Ben:I just wouldn't go to to run the classroom to write anything on the board. I would just sit in the back and head and hang low.
Ashley:Nope. Ben's embarrassing.
Kyle:See, whenever I tried that, they'd call my ass out to go up
Ben:and get enough at it. I'll be good at it.
Ashley:And it's most embarrassing is getting the b's and d's mixed up and getting slapped in the back of the head by dad. That was dad's teaching style.
Ben:Yeah. We usually do homework, like, if you're spelling bee, you do it or do, like, the spelling stuff, and also he'd be looking at it. And also he'd be sitting there, and also he'd go, really? What? Whack?
Ben:You knew exactly what it
Kyle:was for.
Ashley:Or you would just start writing it, and he'd be, like, over your shoulder. And that's probably where my anxiety comes from is when people watch me because of my dad doing homework with me. And then just knowing, like, I started writing a b when it should have been a d and just hearing him him shift, and I'm like, fuck. Okay.
Ben:Or one of those one of those
Kyle:That's an embarrassing
Caleb:Or can I say
Kyle:this one thing? Yep.
Ben:Where you're sitting there and the teacher comes, looks at your place where he goes, guys, please please read the questions carefully, and you're like, what? Is that something wrong?
Kyle:That was one of my embarrassing things. We we had a spelling bee
Ashley:Mhmm.
Kyle:In 6th grade, and I was I was doing pretty good. I was one of the last ones up there. I think I was it it was me and some some other girl, and the word I got was way.
Ashley:Like, w a y?
Caleb:No. Oh, like, w h e y.
Kyle:No. Oil? Like, how much does something weigh?
Ben:Oh, w
Caleb:e I g h.
Kyle:So I spelled all these words and we get down to way, and I'm, like, I'm, like, can you can you use it in a sentence? She goes, you know, like, how much does something weigh? You know? I I I can't remember what the exact thing was, but, you know, I'm like, oh, okay. My my brain completely shut off.
Kyle:I forgot how the fuck just spell way, and I'm like, what the fuck? And, like, I I I was standing up there. It felt, like, for a fucking eternity.
Ashley:Did your face get red?
Kyle:Yeah. Like, I I was like I was like, oh my god. And, like, at this point, I'm like, I just wanna get the fuck off of the stage. Like, everyone's watching me.
Ashley:Yeah.
Kyle:And then she starts counting down. And I'm, like, w and, like, that and, like, she didn't do anything. I'm, like, e? And, like, at this point, like, I was gonna give out letters to get it wrong intentionally. I was, like, e.
Kyle:And she just stopped me, and I'm, like,
Ben:oh, fuck. And I'm,
Kyle:like, oh, my god. I'm, like, what the fuck? And I'm, like, r. I I knew it wasn't r, but, like, I I was, like, fuck it. Like, I give me give me the fuck off of the stage.
Kyle:And it's, like, and I'm, like, oh my god. And she's and then so it goes the other go, w e I g h, and I'm, like, I'm, like, goddamn it.
Caleb:Fucking newness. You're on my fucking shit list now.
Kyle:I'm, like, oh my god. But, like, it was so fucking embarrassing because, like, my mind just shut off. Like, I knew how to spell it, could not remember for some fucking reason. Oh, man. That was so bad.
Ben:I guess I have one. So in middle school, 7th grade, I did band. And there's a really good thing called solo ensemble where we had to go play a solo in front of a judge. Well, would you 2 calm down? I tell my story.
Ben:And, I really didn't know how to play the tuba. I I play the tuba, but I I just blew air into it.
Ashley:Ben faked it to be fake.
Kyle:I got Even And got drowned
Ben:up by the whole band.
Ashley:Yeah. So
Kyle:if you go
Ashley:to concerts, Ben would just be, like,
Ben:You mean the parade? I would just play random things.
Kyle:That's what I do in in the parade is to make it seem like I was I was playing.
Ben:Oh, no. I actually played.
Kyle:I just played random notes. I didn't know what I
Caleb:was doing.
Ashley:I mean, it was either math or choir or art, and that's not good.
Caleb:Either of them. So
Ben:so that was my option. And so I was too, but I was originally gonna go become percussion. But this teacher went, hey. We need 2. We only 2.
Ben:But I said, yeah. Sure. I was too nervous. I'm too shy. I was too nervous and shy to say no.
Ben:That's right. It's adults that they go, wanna play tuba? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's fine.
Ben:Yeah. Yeah. Tubas fine. Tubas fine. It's a really important role.
Ben:Yeah. Okay. That's fine. Yep. Yep.
Ben:Yeah. I put no effort into that thing. And so Soul Ensemble came around, and, like, I was one of the last ones of the day. Some a couple of my friends stayed and watched, and I was like, I'm gonna do good. I got in the room.
Ben:It was And finally, I just, like, stopped and the judge, like, looked at me. You're, like, ta ta.
Kyle:Then just drops the mic.
Caleb:Oh, the 2 what?
Ben:Just but the thing is, I was just it's in, like, a high it's in a middle school and you're spread out through different rooms. Yeah.
Kyle:And so
Ben:I was in my own room. It was really dead quiet. I'm all ears.
Ashley:Wait. Didn't you have a didn't you have a whole, like, song that you had
Ben:to be? Yep. But that's what I remember was the song, or those couple notes that I remember because
Kyle:you didn't know how to read the notes. Nope. The music out of it. I don't know how
Ben:to read music, so I was just playing.
Kyle:I didn't know how to
Ben:play random notes either, so
Kyle:I had to play random notes.
Ashley:You went from low to high.
Ben:Pretty much. I was really good at b flat. B flat was my specialty. That's because you held everything down.
Kyle:You went from low to high note. That's all you did.
Ben:I was really good at b flat. So
Ashley:So you knew you wouldn't place?
Ben:No. No. I wasn't going anywhere than I knew it.
Caleb:But I
Ben:thought I remembered more than that, and I got in the room, looked at music, went, yep. I don't know what I'm doing. And that was 7th grade. And so the worst part was and the worst part was that was 7th grade. I do it back to 8th grade.
Ben:Same
Kyle:exact thing.
Ben:I did not learn a single thing.
Caleb:Yeah. It was terrible. So real quick.
Kyle:Are we thinking of the same incident?
Caleb:We might be. But before we go into any of our band incidents, you're probably better at telling the story than I am, and I know you'll remember it. So I'm just gonna make a motion or I'm gonna make a face, and I want you to tell the story. It was a pretty embarrassing story for me, but you're better at telling it. Okay?
Kyle:Okay.
Ben:Apparently, no, that is from the face.
Kyle:So you know how, like, if you don't have your glasses on and you, like like, your eyes are blurry, you squint your eyes to see. Right. Like, you scrounge your face.
Ben:Right.
Kyle:So I forgot it was mister Boucher, mister Bach. I forgot what what the class was, but Caleb was sitting in the back. It
Caleb:was health.
Kyle:Was it health? Yes. So Caleb was in the far back. I was in the row in front of him, and, you know, mister Box way up at the front. Yep.
Kyle:And he's given this lecture or whatever, and then in the middle of it, he just stops and he goes
Caleb:You gotta explain what you're doing too.
Kyle:He just scrunches his face just in the middle of class.
Ben:That's a tightest kid. Yeah. The band director?
Caleb:No. The teacher. This isn't a band.
Ben:This is health.
Kyle:Just the health teacher. Oh. He just scrunches his face.
Caleb:As tight as he can. And
Kyle:he's just real quiet and, like, we're we're all looking around, like, what the fuck's going on? And he goes, can you see me alright, Caleb? And I I turned around and Caleb's, like With my
Caleb:face fucking scrunch?
Kyle:Yeah. His face is scrunched, and then he just relaxed and he goes, yeah. And he's, like, are you sure? And he's, like, yeah. And he goes, you say you don't wanna move closer?
Kyle:He goes, no longer.
Caleb:That's really fucking embarrassing.
Kyle:But he called his ass out in the middle of Yeah.
Caleb:That's funny.
Kyle:And like, I just remember turning around because I was right in front of Caleb just seeing his face scrunched and he's like and then he relaxes. Oh my god.
Ben:Did you have a blast at the time? Or did you not?
Caleb:I got him shortly after that.
Kyle:Yeah. No. Oh, fuck.
Caleb:Finding Kyle's band stories I think there's endless supply of them.
Kyle:Caleb always rented a trumpet. So you can rent instruments, you know, from, like, your Yep. Whatever? I
Ben:didn't have to because mine was a tuba, and the school had a tuba, and we all shared tuba at school. So Right. The different mouthpieces.
Kyle:So Caleb rented a trumpet, and he he rented a couple different ones. But there was one. Got
Caleb:them from VoIP Music Center in Beloit.
Kyle:Yeah. Mhmm. But there was one. He,
Ashley:We're just going through Caleb's mail.
Ben:Caleb had his
Kyle:trumpet and the band room had different levels to it, you know. So there's, like, you know, the bottom level, there's, like, a little step, you know. Mhmm. And for some reason, dude, Caleb was running up the levels for some reason, like sprinting. And he fucking tripped over one of the steps through his fucking trumpet as he's falling.
Kyle:Yeah.
Caleb:Okay. Fucking Throw it.
Kyle:Heeded that shit.
Caleb:It fell out of my hands.
Kyle:And it fucking dented in the bell. Yeah. Like, it dented in the the the end of it where the sound comes out.
Ben:I I know what a bell is.
Kyle:Crushed it.
Ben:Hey, Kyle. Yeah.
Caleb:I don't know
Ben:if you know this or not, but I work at a company that makes instrument parts, and we engrave them. Okay.
Caleb:But you know what? Some people might not know what a bell is.
Kyle:3 foot launch for $18. Anyways fucking steal.
Caleb:Anyways, I think one of our funniest band
Kyle:stories for 13.
Caleb:Yeah. I think one of our
Kyle:fall off for $7.
Caleb:I think one of our funniest
Ben:band stories I
Caleb:think one of our funniest band stories me and Kyle have is, there was a the breaker box was in the was in the, instrument storage.
Ben:And it looked like have you ever seen someone so excited for Subway coupons? I think Kyle is right now. So I don't know who did not hear. Kyle took Caleb's mail and, is looking at a Subway Coupon. Coupon thing, a bunch of a coupon.
Ben:I'm getting so excited.
Kyle:One one's over in Milwaukee.
Ben:Alrighty. Continue on, Caleb.
Caleb:Alright. So the breaker box is in the way all the band storage is for, like, the instruments and everything. And Kyle and I got the genius idea of flipping a breaker.
Kyle:Well, it started off as flipping 1.
Caleb:Yeah.
Kyle:And we're like, oh, yeah. You know, like, we're so ballsy. So, like, we we just want to see if anything happened. And you know most of the time nothing would happen.
Caleb:Yeah.
Kyle:So, like, we'd flip it. We're like, okay. But there is a camera directly on us. Yeah. But the plug in to turn the camera off was right underneath it.
Kyle:Yeah. So, like, all someone had to do is unplug it,
Ben:and then So it was ghost.
Caleb:So then Kyle and I got the great idea of flipping the main breaker.
Kyle:Yeah. Well, I I was like, Caleb, I'm just gonna flip them all.
Caleb:Yeah. So, like, I
Kyle:was gonna take my whole arm and just flip them all off.
Caleb:Yeah. So I was like, okay. Well, hold on. So I went and unplugged the camera so that way, there was a lot
Ben:of noise. You flip it the first time?
Kyle:No. No. No. Because I I showed him. I'm like, Caleb Look.
Kyle:I'm like, here's the breaker box. The camera? I'm like, just unplug the camera. Oh. I'm like, they can't
Caleb:see anything you're doing here. I went and unplugged the camera. I went went was real sneaky about it, like, check to make sure mister Condon wasn't looking or anything like that Yeah. And just unplugged it.
Kyle:And then so I I looked at Caleb, and I I took my arm, and I flipped all of them at the same time.
Ben:Mhmm.
Kyle:And as soon as I did that, I hear, woah. What happened? So I quickly flipped them all on, and me and Caleb been walking out there. I was trying
Caleb:plugged the camera back in.
Kyle:I was trying so fucking hard to not laugh like
Ben:Well, because he's
Kyle:I had to stand at the back of the class. I'm like
Caleb:Back he's like backed up from his computer at this point. He's just like looking around like, what happened?
Kyle:And we were walking out and I'm, like, what up, mister Condon? And he goes, my computer just shut off. He's, like, everything just shut off. And Caleb's, like, oh, really? That's crazy.
Kyle:And And then Oh my god, dude.
Caleb:And then fucking our orchestra teacher walked in. And she was, like, she was, like, that just happened to you too?
Kyle:So it must have been for that whole for the whole band.
Caleb:It was like a dream of heart wings because it was grand orchestra and choir right there.
Ben:Oh, it
Kyle:must have flipped off the lights. I don't know. The systems for everything.
Caleb:Yeah. It turned off the lights in the fucking band room to, like, where we in the storage area where we were.
Ben:That's crazy.
Caleb:Yeah. So I'm still flabbergasted that they had student access to that because that's bad.
Kyle:Like, I can't believe no one didn't, like, put 2 and 2 together, like, oh,
Ben:they were in there. Right.
Kyle:You know, like like, oh, like, the camera went off for it.
Ben:Like funny parts of teacher going, woah.
Kyle:It was immediately.
Caleb:As soon
Kyle:as it flipped off.
Caleb:That breaker.
Ben:Woah. How old was this dude? Oh, he had to be, like, late. 4 to 3. Twins.
Caleb:Yeah. Woah.
Kyle:But it was funny
Caleb:because never seen a power surge before.
Kyle:He did it in the dark too. It was fucking pitch black and we just hear, woah. And oh my god, dude. It was like the the the comedic timing of that Yeah. Was perfect.
Kyle:It was.
Ben:Hey. Are we going on we going on to high school now? Yeah. I'm going on high school now.
Ashley:Okay. I'll tell mine. Well It's already started.
Kyle:K. So we asked the Caleb then.
Ashley:So I Actually, Kyle backtrack. Wasn't. I was a senior.
Ben:Ashley, Caleb, Kyle, Ben.
Ashley:It was a senior or junior? What? I was a senior or junior, and I was on varsity basketball. I had just come back from, like, a really bad stomachache, like, 3 days worth of, like, throwing up all the stuff. So I, we started lining up to we were doing, like, warm ups, and we started lining up to get announced.
Ashley:And my ex boyfriend, but he was my boyfriend at the time, he came up to me and he's like, do you do you have something? My stomach kinda hurts.
Ben:Oh. I don't
Kyle:remember the story.
Ashley:And I was like, oh, I'm like, yeah. It's it's in my, like, my my basketball bag. I had Tums because it's I I'm a stomachache, girly. And so I was like, yeah. And so I asked my coach and I said, how much time do we have?
Ashley:And he's like, oh, you can go grab that stuff. You got, like, 8 minutes. And I was like, oh, perfect. Solid. So I went in, grabbed 2 or 3 because I was like, what?
Ashley:His stomach hurts. He's gonna need it. So I gave it to him, and he took it. He's like, okay. Thanks.
Ashley:And I also gave him I think I
Kyle:Alright. 99¢. Any signature stack burger? That's a fucking steal to me. Just saying.
Kyle:He's
Ben:a stealer. Pizza
Kyle:at once. I haven't had pizza in so long.
Caleb:Oh, no, Ashley.
Ashley:And so we were, like I gave him Tylenol or Ibuprofen too. And I was, like, okay. Whatever. And so we did our whole, like, announcing warm up with the songs, all the stuff. We go to do the national anthem, and we line up around the 3 point line face towards the flag, and the band's playing.
Ashley:The band was there. So the band starts playing and, like, where my parents, Ben, and my boyfriend at the time was, I could, like, see them out of the corner of my eyes.
Ben:Mhmm. Then not Kyle?
Kyle:No. Not me.
Ashley:And he I could see him standing up, you know, like you're supposed to, and then I see him, like, sit down. And then I see my mom put, like, her hand on his shoulder, and then I see him get up and he starts, like, running down the bleachers, and he just stops and throws up right next to, like, the trumpet.
Ben:In student section?
Ashley:In student section.
Kyle:On the bleachers or the floor?
Ashley:On the bleachers. Aw. And I, like, instantly like, we're supposed to have, like, our hands around each other and stuff.
Kyle:And everyone knew that you guys were dead. Yeah.
Ben:Yep. Yeah. It's a small school.
Ashley:So everyone I, like, instantly put my hand up over my mouth, and I was, like, and everybody is, like, nudging me, like, in the line.
Ben:Tries to stop because it's definitely at them. And then I was, like, go
Kyle:go go.
Ashley:He, like, tries to stop with, like, the throw up on the ground, and my mom, like, pushes him and yells at him and says, go. And it's, like, kinda quiet, but kinda not. And then he throws up again in the hallway.
Ben:In the garbage can
Ashley:this time. Garbage yeah. He made it to the garbage can. And, yeah. So the national anthem's over.
Ashley:They start
Ben:And the funny part was is some of these people in the school still know him because he was, what, like, 2 years older than me? Yeah. 2 years older. So he went to he went to Bigfoot too. To Cougars.
Ashley:Oh, yeah.
Ben:He went to, Bigfoot too. So Yeah.
Ashley:So people knew him.
Ben:Knew him at the school still. Older guys, so those are
Kyle:Mountain Lion.
Ashley:I don't know. So yeah. I got
Ben:the creeps.
Ashley:We got done and I went in the huddle And my coach goes, like, Ashley, is he okay? And I'm, like, listen. I'm here. I don't know. So my mom drove him back to his apartment.
Ashley:Yeah. Oh my god. Sick for 3 days. And I was, like, yeah. Maybe it was a bad idea for you to come hang out with me when I was throwing my guts
Kyle:up. Jesus.
Ashley:Oh,
Kyle:feel absurd?
Caleb:I don't
Kyle:know. Oh, I'm sure you have a story.
Caleb:I don't know.
Kyle:You could've been thinking about it, but you're on your phone the whole time, actually.
Ben:Nothing I'm
Caleb:sorry. I had to do something for work.
Ashley:Nothing about a girl.
Caleb:Yeah. I didn't really date in high school.
Ashley:Nothing about a guy.
Caleb:Not gay.
Kyle:Temperatures. Temperatures.
Ben:Yeah. Fuck off.
Caleb:Hey.
Ben:If someone wants to try, he's 10 there's 10% checks, he will try.
Kyle:Okay. I'm sure you got one. I don't know.
Ashley:Alright, Ben. Go.
Kyle:No. I I think I know one when he got caught skipping.
Caleb:That was middle school.
Kyle:No. It was high school. Mhmm. Yep. No.
Kyle:Because we were going in late because they had ace ATC or ATC? A ACT test.
Caleb:They had traffic control.
Ben:They had
Kyle:the the seniors had testing that day, so the underclassmen
Ashley:had been going late.
Kyle:Juniors. Juniors. That was a summerclassman?
Ashley:No. No. The ACTs are juniors.
Kyle:Was it juniors? Yeah.
Ben:Are you sure it wasn't the SATs?
Kyle:It it might have been SATs. No. No. No.
Caleb:No. You're not thinking of ACTs or
Ashley:It was probably just state testing.
Caleb:Yeah. It was Because the testing. Wait. No. Because as seniors, we didn't do MAP.
Caleb:We did the WKEC.
Kyle:We weren't seniors. We were underclassmen.
Caleb:Okay. So yes.
Kyle:So we so we had to go in at, like, 11 o'clock or something. And me and Caleb are gonna walk in and Caleb's like, dude, just skip with me. And I'm like, no. Like, I, you know, I I don't wanna get caught. He goes, oh, you won't get caught.
Kyle:And I'm like, no. Like, I'm not gonna skip. So I went into school and he's like, fine. I'm leaving. I'm like, alright.
Kyle:Deuces. And then so I go to my 1st class, and then after the class gets out, I'm walking down the hallway, and we pass each other. And I'm, like, what the fuck are you doing here? And he goes, my parents caught me. They called me.
Kyle:I'm, like, what the fuck?
Caleb:Are you sure that was me? I don't remember.
Kyle:That that was you. Yes.
Caleb:I don't remember.
Kyle:I was like, how'd they find you? And apparently, you were, like, walking down an alleyway, and your dad drove by? No. And then he backed up. Or was it your brother or something?
Caleb:I don't remember the story.
Kyle:I know
Caleb:my dad driving by. He was in middle school for summer school. He drove by. I was walking to Taco Bell before Taco Bell had breakfast, and, I was walking to taco bell because my cousin worked there. Bright idea.
Caleb:Right. He was the manager there. So I was gonna go get some Taco Bell. And it was like 10 am, 9 am, something like that. And I walk and walk in the Taco Bell across the street.
Caleb:My dad must have seen me there. Got to Taco Bell, pulled up right next door to me, rolled his window around. He goes, get the fuck in the car. And I was like, fuck. So then I got in the car, and he was like, what do what were you thinking?
Caleb:And I was like,
Ashley:I want to take
Caleb:Bell. If I would have not had won a Taco Bell, I would not have
Ben:walked that way. It is true. Oh my god.
Ashley:I got anything from high school? No. Kyle?
Kyle:No. No. Yeah. He's gotta find something. I found something for Caleb.
Caleb:That I don't
Ben:remember. Yeah.
Caleb:Clearly not impressionable to me. I
Ben:I remember it. High school is even worse to look like and then it was middle school.
Kyle:But that's when you're going through puberty.
Caleb:Middle school ruined me for girls. Okay. That sounds
Ben:Middle school ruined me
Caleb:for trying for how do I fucking say this? Middle school ruined me as far as, like, dating was concerned.
Kyle:Ruin your chances with
Ben:girls. Yep.
Caleb:Yes. So yeah. Like, I didn't wanna
Kyle:I was gonna
Caleb:get stressed. I was too much of a pussy. And I
Ben:just thought of a middle school embarrassing moment now. I think I was another middle school one. Okay. Fine. Kinda funny.
Ben:So we used to have this thing called snowballs in middle school dances.
Ashley:Oh.
Ben:We used to pay 25¢, and then your friends could sign you up to dance with somebody.
Ashley:Yeah. You would snowball somebody. Yeah.
Kyle:That term is really bad for a middle school dance. Do you know what snow balling is? No.
Caleb:No.
Ben:I can only imagine. Here we go do that thing quick. We'll go back to my
Kyle:So snowballing is where a guy comes in a girl's mouth
Ashley:Mhmm.
Kyle:And they start swapping it between their mouths. Oh. It's called snowballing.
Ben:That's why you 2 looked at each other.
Kyle:Yeah. That's why I'm, like, that's bad. But Anyway
Ben:So my friend thought it was funny to do it to me with a bunch of girls, to snowball me with a bunch of girls. And
Kyle:But you said you were with a bunch of girls? Oh, yeah. They would
Ben:do it. Every time there would be a snowball,
Kyle:they would
Ben:tie me up. Because I was funny because I didn't like I was nerve I didn't You didn't
Caleb:say you didn't like dancing with girls.
Ben:No. I didn't mind
Caleb:it. But
Ben:I was shy.
Kyle:I remember all from
Ben:I was very shy. So this one girl, she was the one announcing it because she was part of student council. She was the one announcing, like, who Snowball is. Mhmm. And then she got to that one, the me and her, and she just like, okay.
Ben:We're all done now.
Kyle:And all my friends were like, all my friends Woah.
Ben:All my friends, like, knew about it, looked at me and went, oh, I can't they were like all, like, like, dumbfounded. And then she just, like, walked away. And
Kyle:And I
Ben:was, like
Kyle:That's humiliating. Alright.
Ashley:They should go get their quarterback.
Ben:In front of the whole middle school.
Caleb:They should get their
Kyle:Oh, wow.
Ben:The whole seminaryth grade. She goes, alright. We're done now. And, like, all my friends it's a small school again. We were even smaller.
Ben:I graduated with 64 people Oh. In my grade school. So everybody in the dance pretty much knew what was
Caleb:happening. Damn.
Ben:Yeah. It was it was it was, like, the 2nd snowball. It was, like, 4 of them people dance.
Ashley:With the new, the new kid in 7th grade and, yeah, Brayden McCarthy, and we danced.
Ben:In 7th grade. Thought he's been there for a while. Mhmm. The
Caleb:only thing I can think of for high school, like, off the top of my head that's embarrassing is I took a girl to prom. Like, 2 months later, she came out as lesbian.
Kyle:No. I know another one.
Ashley:Go for yourself. Yeah.
Caleb:No. Hold on.
Kyle:Let me just go
Ben:what?
Caleb:Do I remember this one?
Kyle:Yes. Me and Caleb, because it was the same homecoming that my incident happened, as homecoming, Caleb was taking a girl to homecoming. They go halfway through homecoming, he finds out she has a boyfriend.
Caleb:Oh, yeah. Because I asked her out while we were slow dancing. Yeah.
Kyle:I was,
Caleb:like, oh, that's romantic.
Kyle:Yeah. He asked her out. She's like, I have a boyfriend.
Ashley:Was he, like, older?
Kyle:No. You know who she is too. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna name up right now, but yeah. But yeah.
Caleb:I was a little bit mad.
Kyle:I I felt bad for Caleb. So he got upset. So I I was with my ex at the time. My the one I was with through, like, 3 quarters of high school. We got into a fight about something.
Ashley:When were 22 fighting?
Ben:Yeah.
Caleb:Right?
Kyle:Well, no. This was I can't remember what it was about. But she stormed out of the gymnasium, and so I was just kind of, like, just standing, like, in the dance floor just, like, by myself.
Ashley:Mhmm.
Kyle:And all of a sudden, this girl comes up and just starts fucking twerking on me and, like, grinding on me, and I'm, like, what the fuck is going on right now? And, like so, like, I'm trying to push her away. All of a sudden, here comes my girlfriend walking in, and she sees it, and I'm, like, no no no. I'm like, this is not what it looks like I swear to God. So then she got eaten more pissed.
Kyle:I'm like, no, I I was trying to push her away,
Ben:like You learn to keep talking
Kyle:It was terrible.
Ben:You get excited go like this and keep talking. You go back.
Kyle:Yeah. Keep talking. Like, it No. It's just fucking
Ben:bad. Around the microphone.
Caleb:Do I know do I know a funny story about something that happened to homecoming? Kinda funny. I I I only I've heard second hand accounts of this.
Ben:The last story to round this podcast off? Yeah.
Kyle:After this, we have to wrap up.
Caleb:This one doesn't, like, isn't embarrassing for me. It's actually my brother sticking up for me.
Ben:Okay.
Caleb:But, my brother was a senior when I was a freshman. Tyler? Yep. And we went to homecoming, and Tyler was hanging out with his, you know, friends and everything. And one of his friends not his friends.
Caleb:One of his friends' friends.
Ashley:Mhmm. So an acquaintance to him.
Caleb:Yeah. They were talking mad shit about me.
Ashley:No. No. They didn't say a club.
Caleb:I don't I don't know. He didn't tell me what they were saying, but he just said they were talking mad shit about me. And then Tyler's friend starts giggling. And I I gotta point out, Tyler is a big guy. Like Mhmm.
Kyle:Yeah. Do
Ashley:Yeah. If I didn't know him, I would be scared of him.
Caleb:Yeah. And, Tyler's just sitting there straight faced, and Tyler's friend just starts giggling. And, the, the, other guy was like, what's so funny? He's like that kid you're talking about. That's his brother wants to Tyler.
Caleb:The kid ran away, Literally booked it through the parking arena straight out the doors and left homecoming.
Kyle:Oh my god. Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah.
Caleb:It was, like, when Tyler told me that, I was like, damn.
Kyle:I don't track kids down. That's funny.
Caleb:Yeah.
Kyle:Oh, man. Oh.
Caleb:Alrighty. That's
Kyle:a wrap. Yep. We're going to wrap it up.
Ashley:Hopefully
Ben:Thank you for our live studio audience.
Kyle:It's been a little bit of a longer episode, but I I think that's okay.
Caleb:Only an hour and 5 minutes.
Ashley:Hopefully, you got Oh, good. An insight more into your hosts.
Ben:Yeah. Yeah.
Ashley:Hopefully, you left with us on our embarrassments.
Caleb:Yep. And all of our other funny stories that weren't really embarrassing, but just
Ben:or stories that killed our attention.
Caleb:I really don't remember. I really don't remember.
Kyle:The first cough, like, amplified in my ears.
Caleb:I really don't remember the the skipping one Yeah. Honestly. I remember
Kyle:that because I thought it was so funny.
Ashley:Okay. As always, follow our social medias.
Kyle:I I don't think you have to read them off. I No.
Caleb:Every person should know them by now. Yeah. If not, I'll link them in the description. Yep. Why did I point down when I did that?
Caleb:Because of the fucking YouTube video. Yeah. And we'll link in the description below.
Ben:He lives on my screen. A camera just for him. I do.
Ashley:Okay. You're
Kyle:ready? Alright. Well, deuces, everybody.
Ashley:Toodles.
Ben:Aloha. Adios. Oh, aloha.
